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Lists and catalogues have been en vogue in philosophy, cultural,
media and literary studies for more than a decade. These
explorations of enumerative modes, however, have not yet had the
impact on classical scholarship that they deserve. While they
routinely take (a limited set of) ancient models as their starting
point, there is no comparably comprehensive study that focuses on
antiquity; conversely, studies on lists and catalogues in Classics
remain largely limited to individual texts, and - with some notable
exceptions - offer little in terms of explicit theorising. The
present volume is an attempt to close this gap and foster the
dialogue between the recent theoretical re-appraisal of enumerative
modes and scholarship on ancient cultures. The 16 contributions to
the volume juxtapose literary forms of enumeration with an
abundance of ancient non-, sub- or para-literary practices of
listing and cataloguing. In their different approaches to this vast
and heterogenous corpus, they offer a sense of the hermeneutic,
epistemic and methodological challenges with which the study of
enumeration is faced, and elucidate how pragmatics, materiality,
performativity and aesthetics are mediated in lists and catalogues.
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Homer’s Iliad (Hardcover)
Katharina Wesselmann; Translated by Benjamin Millis, Sara Strack
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R2,673
Discovery Miles 26 730
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton
Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published in German,
presents the latest developments in Homeric scholarship. Through
the English translation of this ground-breaking reference work,
edited by S. Douglas Olson, its valuable findings are now made
accessible to students and scholars worldwide.
The series MythosEikonPoiesis begins with the publication of
contributions to an international conference held at Castelen-Augst
near Basle. The conference laid new foundations in examining the
interdependence of myth, ritual and Greek literature in many
different genres (Homeric epic, lyric poetry, Presocratic and
Platonic philosophy, tragedy, comedy, satyr plays, historiography,
Hellenistic poetry, and the novel) with regard to their textual
structure and poetics. Working in interdisciplinary cooperation,
some participants also direct their attention towards Egypt, the
Near East, Rome, and to the reception of these poetological
principles in modern literature.
The series MythosEikonPoiesis begins with the publication of
contributions to an international conference held at Castelen-Augst
near Basle. The conference laid new foundations in examining the
interdependence of myth, ritual and Greek literature in many
different genres (Homeric epic, lyric poetry, Presocratic and
Platonic philosophy, tragedy, comedy, satyr plays, historiography,
Hellenistic poetry, and the novel) with regard to their textual
structure and poetics. Working in interdisciplinary cooperation,
some participants also direct their attention towards Egypt, the
Near East, Rome, and to the reception of these poetological
principles in modern literature.
Herodotus is often criticised for his mythical representation of
historical events. However, this offers an important key to the
understanding of the text. Starting with the reconstruction of a
contemporary mythical-ritual framework, in her reading of the
Histories Katharina Wesselmann uses the associative content of the
traditional themes of iniquity, madness, trickery and transition
which underpin the Histories. In this way Herodotus no longer
appears as the father of history writing, as Cicero called him, but
rather as the heir to a tradition of storytelling.
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